 Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height : What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang) In height and cold, the splendour of the hills? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted Pine, To sit a star upon...  Leaves from a Viceroy's Note-book and Other Papers - Page 177by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston - 1926 - 414 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...reads the following Idyl (pp. 151—153): — 1 " Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height : What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang) In height and cold, the splendour of the hills ? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted Pine, ; To sit... | |
 | England - 1861 - 814 pages
...philosophy, in vain, we fear, would the appeal be made — " Come down, 0 maid, from yonder mountain height ; What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang), In height and cold, the splendour of the hills ? But cease to move so near tho heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted pine, To sit a... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1848 - 186 pages
...small Sweet Idyl, and once more, as low, she read : ' Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height : What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang) In height and cold, the splendour of the hills? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted Pine, To sit a star... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1850 - 604 pages
...reads the following Idyl (pp. 151—153):— " ' Come down, О maid, from yonder mountain height : What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang) — In height and cold, the splendor of the hills? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...and reads the following Idyl (pp. 151—153):— "'Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height : What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang)— In height and cold, the splendor of the hills? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 290 pages
...small Sweet Idyl, and once more, as low, she read: " Come down, oh maid, from yonder mountain height: What pleasure lives in height, (the shepherd sang,) In height and cold, the splendor of the hills ? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 1851 - 300 pages
...small Sweet Idyl, and once more, as low, she read : " Come down, oh maid, from yonder mountain height : What pleasure lives in height, (the shepherd sang,) In height and cold, the splendor of the hills ? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the... | |
 | George William Curtis - Atlantic States - 1852 - 214 pages
...Princess," the " small, sweet Idyl" which she read ? " Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height; What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang), In height and cold, the splendour of the hills ? But cease to move so near the heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the blasted pine, To sit a... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...small Sweet Idyl, and once more, as low, she read : " Come down, oh maid, from yonder mountain height : What pleasure lives in height, (the shepherd sang,) In height and cold, the splendor of the hills ? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease To glide a sunbeam by the... | |
 | Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1854 - 486 pages
...EXERCISE II. Passage from TENNYSON'S " Princess." Come down, 0 Maid, from yonder mountain-height ! What pleasure lives in height, (the shepherd sang), In height and cold, the splendour of the hills ? But cease to move so near the heavens, and cease To glide a sun-beam by the blasted pine, To sit... | |
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